Untitled, 2004 Will Fowler Don't Eat Yellow Bricks This exhibition is a carefully organized group of paintings populated by simple, migratory shapes - spots, stripes, orthogonals, knotted strings of color - that alternately crowd or desert canvases of varying sizes and scales. The shapes correspond with the coins, kites, wheels, and eyes that intermittently appear in the paintings' margins. In some paintings the surface is split into disjunctive patterns that are traversed by multi-colored pathways. This geological knitting-together is foiled by a palette of bluntly applied, undiluted color. The colors interfere with each other and cannot be understood sequentially, as if, in the words of the artist, "a circus train has become uncoupled on its tracks". Outwardly facing, decorative, and confrontational, the paintings are hard to characterize as loose or controlled. Abstraction takes on a mode of address that is very specific yet missing a lot of information. In a recent news item, a postcard was successfully delivered to a West Virginia mailbox addressed only "To Mrs. English, on top of a big hill". This is akin to abstraction's relationship to the viewer: it is addressed with the process of its own delivery. Will Fowler is an artist based in Los Angeles. He has previously exhibited his work at Galerie Hohenlohe & Kalb in Vienna. This is his first solo exhibition in the United States. Exhibition: September 11 - October 16, 2004 Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 11 am - 6 pm David Kordansky Gallery 510 Bernard Street USA-Los Angeles, CA 90012 Telephone +1 323 222 14 82 Fax +1 323 227 79 33 Email info@davidkordanskygallery.com www.davidkordanskygallery.com |
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